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  • Twenty-One Titles for a Revenge Poem
  • Alan Michael Parker (bio)

I kicked his sorry ass out eight years ago.

— Tim
  1. 1. Self-Portrait as an Empty Chair.

  2. 2. Self-Portrait as a Chair in an Empty Poem.

  3. 3. Self-Portrait as a Chair in a Room in an Empty Poem (Left on a Chair in a Room, Alone in a Poem).

  4. 4. Why Hath You Left Me on a Chair, Poem?

  5. 5. Leave Me Alone, Charlotte Brontë.

  6. 6. I Never Loved Me, Either.

  7. 7. Ceci N’est Pas Une Poème Classical.

  8. 8. If You Leave Me, I Shall Burn Your Chair.

  9. 9. You Suck.

  10. 10. Poems Suck.

  11. 11. You Double-Suck.

  12. 12. I Burned Your Chair.

  13. 13. [a love poem like this should love]

  14. 14. If I Wanted to Write a Love Poem, I Would Have.

  15. 15. Good, the Sparrows Are Dead.

  16. 16. Irony, Poetry, Booze, Sleep, Nightmares, Harmony, Shmarmony.

  17. 17. Ha!

  18. 18. What’s a Title, Love, but Another Unilateral Decision.

  19. 19. Empty Chair, There, There; or, Self-Portrait as Samuel Beckett.

  20. 20. But My Niece?

  21. 21. I Shall Leave You First: Here’s a Poem. [End Page 25]

Alan Michael Parker

Alan Michael Parker is the author of seven books of poems, including Long Division (2012), and three novels, including The Committee on Town Happiness (forthcoming), as well as the editor or coeditor of three other volumes. His awards include three Pushcart Prizes, inclusion in Best American Poetry 2011, and the 2012 North Carolina Book Award in Poetry. He is the Douglas C. Houchens Professor of English at Davidson College and a faculty member in the University of Tampa low-residency MFA program.

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